China Approves Income Plan as Wealth Gap Poses Risks to Xi

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A female scavenger puts useful construction waste onto her trolly in a garbage dump in Hefei, central China's Anhui province. The nation’s Gini coefficient was 0.474 in 2012, statistics bureau data showed last month, above the 0.4 level used by analysts as a gauge of the potential for social unrest.